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[–]blackpoop321 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Everybody should post everything in /s/whatever, this site doesn't have enough traffic to warrant sub-divisions.

[–]yabbit[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's too broad, people need directionality in what they post. Plus they want to migrate to saidit because it's just like reddit but without overzealous moderation so having the website set up just like it was before would be a plus. Plus even if there are sub-divisions who cares the content will appear on all anyway.

[–]send_nasty_stuff 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I disagree. I think sub division is what makes sites grow. People get connected to a particular sub community and they go to that website to exclusively use that sub. If the sub isn't available then people aren't really interested in general conversation with thousands of topics mixed together. That's why reddit got so big. Probably half of the user base doesn't even know the rest of reddit exists. They just use it for information about magic cards or information about fermentation or discussion about a favorite TV show.

[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

blackpoop321 4 insightful - 1 fun - 14 hours ago Everybody should post everything in /s/whatever, this site doesn't have enough traffic to warrant sub-divisions.

Nah we'd end up like oldfag 4chan if that happened and we're not cool enough to be 4chan.

[–]harley 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

There aren't enough subs

perhaps we have too many subs, which only serves to create a society that is even further divided.

when i was a kid, i worked in the school library and my primary job was to re-shelve returned library books. It was my job to learn the dewey decimal system, which is perhaps how these forums should be categorized.

when i worked in the library, we didnt allow students to come in and create new categories in the dewey decimal system, but they could write a book for the science or math or poetry section if they wanted to.

but then, maybe we do need fifteen different /s/lesbian subs, lol.

/s/lesbians

/s/lesbian_trolls

/s/lesbian_crazy

[–]AXXA 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

What topics are you interested in?

[–]yabbit[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Basically all of the subs that reddit shut down or are severely limited in scope. It's not my interests that are necessarily missing but what attracts people to a site is the ability to grow a community and I don't think people are going to wait two weeks on an essentially dead website to make the subreddit they want to curate. Reddit already exists, people like the functionality they just hate the censorship. I think just recreating reddit just without nazi mods is a pretty good tagline for user growth.

[–]raven9 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

what attracts people to a site is the ability to grow a community and..

No it's not. I am interested in posting discussion topics and sharing information I am not interested in "growing a community". That kind of thing is for narcissistic psychopaths who crave control.

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

raven9 2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 hours ago what attracts people to a site is the ability to grow a community and..

No it's not. I am interested in posting discussion topics and sharing information I am not interested in "growing a community". That kind of thing is for narcisstic psychopaths.

/me see's Mark Zuckerberg somewhere in the world shedding a single tear before wiping it away with a million dollar bill

[–]send_nasty_stuff 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I second this idea. The most important thing saidit can do is facilitate migration from reddit. Millions of people are on reddit and still unaware of how censored and controlled it is. They are the types of people that would migrate in mass to saidit if we made it easy for them. I had potentially 10's of thousands of people that were interested in moving to saidit 2 years ago but I could only get about 50-100 because of how difficult it was to move.

The two big things I found that people hated was the wait time to create a sub and no native picture and video uploading*. I'm just blown away that saidit is trying to take people away from reddit by offering fewer tools.